The world since Friday is a great interpreters of soul music poorer: Bill Withers died at the age of 81 years, at the result of heart complications. This was announced by his family in a Statement, the statements of the “Rolling Stone” published. “We are destroyed due to the loss of our devoted husband and father on the ground,” was Withers’ family tell. In private he was always close to his family hanged, but his music belonged to the whole world.
Famous Ain’t No Sunshine”, which has been covered by musicians around the globe”. For the related debut Album “Just As I Am” was, Bill Withers in 1971, his first of three Grammys. And it was not a Hit. Also, “Lean on Me”, “Use Me” and “Lovely Day” were extremely successful. Withers had a major influence on soul music in the United States.
A tough Childhood,
Bill Withers was his name William Harrison Withers, Jr. 1938 in West Virginia born and had it in a long time is not easy. Due to his stuttering, he found it hard to make friends. Already at the age of 13 he lost his father. After this blow of fate, it was his grandmother who took care of the young.
After a Job in the US Navy, he moved in 1967 to Los Angeles. Until his breakthrough in the music industry, he worked in a company that earned money with the toilet seats.
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